Fascism in America

Past and Present

Edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward

Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascist ideas have long been present within American society. Since the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, scholars have debated whether Trumpism should be seen as an outgrowth of American conservatism or of a darker – and potentially fascist –tradition. Fascism in America contributes to this debate by examining the activities of interwar right-wing groups like the Silver Shirts, the KKK, and the America First movement, as well as the post-war rise of Black antifascism and white vigilantism, the representation of American Nazis in popular culture, and policy options for combating right-wing extremism

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is President of the Center for Jewish History and Professor of History at Fairfield University. He is the author or editor of eight books on the Nazi era, including The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism since World War II (2019) and Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture (2014).

Janet Ward is an American Council on Education Fellow at Yale University, and Brammer Presidential Professor of History and Faculty Fellow for Strategic Initiatives (DFCAS) at the University of Oklahoma. Past President of the German Studies Association, she is the author or co-editor of seven books, including Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity (2014) and the forthcoming Sites of Holocaust Memory.

Contributors

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Janet Ward, Geoff Eley, Thomas Weber, Matthew Specter, Varsha Venkatasubramanian, Linda Gordon, Bradley W. Hart, Richard Steigmann-Gall, Alexander Reid Ross, Anna F. Duensing, Ousmane K. PowerGreene, Marla Stone, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Ruth Ben-Ghiat

in America

UK publication September 2023

US publication September 2023

461 Pages 9781009337434

Paperback

£26.99 | $34.99 USD | $39.95 CAD

At a glance

• Offers an accessible assessment of American fascism from a historical and contemporary perspective

• Helps contextualize the origins of present-day right-wing trends across the United States

• Presents the most cutting-edge scholarship on American fascism

UK publication July 2023

US publication July 2023

9781108412247 Paperback

£29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance

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